《献给艾米丽的玫瑰花》是美国著名小说家福克纳的作品,以美国南北战争为背景。随着北方工业经济的发展,南方贵族开始颓废。在两个时代的交汇处,在历史和南北文化冲突处,人性的光辉与阴暗同时暴露。小说主人公艾米丽恰好是生活在这样一个南北交替时代的南方人,她目睹了南方文明的兴衰,自始至终以自己的力量捍卫着最后的南部文明。福克纳借着艾米丽这个角色表达了自己对南部文明的挽留和依恋,同时也流露出自己深深的南方情结。 “Rose for Emily” is the work of Faulkner, a famous American novelist, set in the context of the American Civil War. With the development of the industrial economy in the north, the aristocracy in the south began to decadent. At the crossroads of the two ages, the brightness and gloom of humanity are exposed simultaneously in the conflicts between history and North and South cultures. Emily, the fiction hero, happens to be a southerner living in such an era of alternating south and south. She witnessed the rise and fall of southern civilization and defended the final southern civilization with her own strength. Faulkner expressed his retention and attachment to the southern civilization through Emily’s character, while also showing his deep southern complex.